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I want USA to go back to the optimism and softer values like democracy and human rights 70's style.
I know everything was not perfect, but back then we admired USA for their industry and innovation and humanism, and the moon landing was an inspiration to all, and the fact that NASA acknowledged it as an achievement of humanity.
Back then it looked like USA was a country that strived to progress, but then Reagan happened, and everything began to reverse, and when Bush was elected twice, it was evidence the American spirit that we loved was gone completely. Even Obama wanted to continue illegal intelligence, and massively increased illegal military drone attacks into Pakistan.
Obama may have seemed progressive, but in reality he wasn't really, he was just not as big a problem as the Republicans.
Jimmy Carter was the last good president of USA. After that it's just been varying degrees of bad.
100% agree, except one thing - George Bush didn't win in 2000, they stole it, and there's good evidence that there was funny business at play in 2004 as well.
More like Bush was trying to steal it and then Gore handed it to him.
Valid. Another example of Democrats being too polite to evil people.
Yes, but election fraud is just another part of the problem. Not only was the fraud made, the election result was accepted despite of it. It doesn't really change much. A president can be elected without a majority vote, and usually are when it's republicans.
The system has been made less democratic since the 70's instead of more. A bit of election fraud is no different than gerrymandering.
‘I want to go back to when the propaganda was better’
Yes of course, it was not all rainbows and sunshine, but there was a sentiment of progress, and mostly everything improved A LOT during the 70's.
And Carter was all for renewable energy, and when Reagan took over, that too ended. Renewable energy = less wars to control the oil.
If you are denying that Carter was better, and even the American population was better in the 70's, we have nothing to talk about.